Remember the craze for magnetic poetry a few years ago? It seemed like everyone’s refrigerator was covered in tiny words, rearranged by friends drifting in and out of the kitchen. I was never any good at fridge poetry, myself, but if you miss it, there’s isnoop.net’s Magnetic Words, a virtual fridge covered with words just [...]
The Wyoming Humanities Council quarterly board meeting will take place today, beginning at 1:00 p.m., at the Historic Union Pacific Depot in Rawlins. Our board meetings are open to the public, so if you’re in Rawlins, feel free to stop by and say hi!
Humanities Forum: Log Architecture in Wyoming: Laramie
Tuesday, July 20, 6:00 p.m., Wyoming Territorial Prison
Melanie O’Hara presents the 19th Century log architecture of southeast Wyoming, especially the Laramie, Centennial, Saratoga, and Encampment communities, along with historic photographs of ranches and mountain lodges built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration programs.
Impressions on Wyoming Lecture [...]
Humanities Al Fresco! Jackson Hole Lecture Series: Grand Teton National Park
Monday, July 12, 6:30 p.m., Grand Teton Climber’s Ranch
“Geraldine Lucas: Mountaineering, Homesteading, and Fighting the Federal Government in Early 20th Century Jackson Hole,” with Dr. Sherry Smith.
Impressions on Wyoming Lecture Series: Casper
Wednesday, July 14, 7:00 p.m., Fort Caspar Museum
“The Pony Express,” with Les Bennington.
Reading [...]
The second presentation in the Humanities Al Fresco! series is scheduled for Monday, July 12, 6:30 p.m., at the Grand Teton Climbers Ranch. Dr. Sherry Smith presents, “Geraldine Lucas: Mountaineering, Homesteading, and Fighting the Federal Government in Early 20th Century Jackson Hole.” The program is presented in partnership with the Grand Teton Climbers Ranch, which [...]
Impressions on Wyoming Lecture Series: Casper
Wednesday, July 7, 7:00 p.m., Fort Caspar Museum
“Heart Mountain War Relocation Center,” with Pat Wolfe.
Humanities Forum: My Horse, My Gun, My Libraries: Centennial
Friday, July 9, 7:00 p.m., Centennial Library
As Mabel Wilkinson, Lynne Swanson describes some of the adventures and difficulties of bringing libraries to Platte County and to the rest [...]
It’s one thing to read that, say, airlines use 47 plastic cups per second, and quite another to see 47 virtual cups per second cascading down your computer screen. This is the genius of So Many A Second, which converts events (trees cut, stars born, blog posts published) into visual icons, making statistics visible. My [...]